Leonardo Conte graduated in Economics at Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth (UCSC) in Milan, with a Minor in Quantitative Methods for Economic Sciences. Thereafter, he earned the MSc in Economics and International Policies at the University of Lugano (USI), where he is currently Teaching and Research Assistant for the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management (IMCA) within the Faculty of Communication Sciences. He is also Junior Research Fellow of the Harvard Policy and Institutional Research Project (PIRP) and Research Contributor at the Italian Institute for the Future (IIF). Furthermore, he founded the student association Rethinking Economics Lugano and he is former coordinator of the national network Rethinking Economics Switzerland.
Leonardo Conte is currently pursuing research on different areas, namely economic sociology, marketing theory and organizational theory. In particular, he is focusing on the performativity of economics, the sociological analysis of behavioural economics, the responsibilization of consumers and the mortgage regulations after the 2008 financial crisis.